Distinguish between primary and secondary sources, defining
the characteristics of each and evaluating each for their benefits and limitations. 0601.4.4

Links verified on 6/6/2014

How
do we know what we know? - analyzing primary sources - lesson plan;
analyze a picture of a Powhatan object shown on the John Smith map in order
to learn more about Powhatan Indian life

Primary Source Documents

100
milestone documents of American history - These documents help us
think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens
in our democracy, and reflect our diversity and our unity, our past
and our future.

American
Memory Timeline - This resource was developed to help teachers and
students use the vast online collections of the Library of Congress.
The links will lead you to sets of selected primary sources on a variety
of topics in United States History. The sets are arranged by chronological
period.

American
Treasures of the Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson, whose personal
library became the core of the Library of Congress, arranged his books
into three types of knowledge, corresponding to three faculties of the
mind: Memory (History), Reason (Philosophy), and Imagination (Fine Arts).

The
Civil War - The Valley of the Shadow - The Valley of the Shadow
Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through
the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia
archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after
the Civil War.

Teaching
with Documents - reproducible copies of primary documents from the
holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities
correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards
for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections

Document
Analysis Worksheets - designed and developed by the Education
Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration to help
your students evaluate a variety of types of primary documents